“Parks and Recreation” fans rejoiced when Leslie Knope and April Ludgate appeared on “Saturday Night Live” fake news segment “Weekend Update.” And they even snuck in a Rosa Parks pun.

Aubrey Plaza served as host during the Jan. 23 episode of “SNL” and surprised viewers with a reprisal of her snarky “Parks and Rec” character “to encourage young people to get involved with local government.”

When pressed by co-anchor Colin Jost for more information, she referred him to her old boss Leslie Knope, as Amy Poehler appeared (after a cameo during Plaza’s monologue) in character for the first time since the cast reunited virtually during the pandemic.

Knope, typically an enthusiastic government employee seemed less inclined to talk shop and instead sat awestruck by the late night sketch comedy show’s day-to-day schedule. “Who knew there cameras at ‘SNL’?” she said. They even worked in a line about Knope’s crush on Joe Biden (the president also appeared during the monologue).

But the Alabama reference, of sorts, came when Knope asked Jost if she could take a stab at telling a joke from his chair. It went like this:

“A town in Alaska has launched a bus service for puppies. The service has expanded to puppies thanks to the heroic activism of K9 civil rights icon, Rosa Barks.”

It’s not even the first time the show has cracked a joke about Parks in the last few years. In December 2020, during heir annual “Christmas Swap,” anchors Jost and Michael Che gave each other jokes to read. The idea is neither has seen the jokes, and they are meant to embarrass the person telling them as they read them for the first time on a teleprompter.

As for that Parks gag…

“This week marks the 65th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus,” Jost said. “And I just wish that all black people could follow her example of sitting down and shutting up.”

Jost immediately put his head down and bit his tongue as Che rejoiced in his partner’s humiliation.

Born in Tuskegee, Parks is a civil rights icon who boarded a segregated bus where she refused to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955. She died in 2005.

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